Random Thoughts Part 5: Time to Split Again

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The discussion revolves around various topics, including a dream about a person named Borek, reflections on the book "The Martian," and the complexities of educational systems in the US and UK. Participants share insights on the long and short scales of numbers, particularly regarding the term "billion," and discuss the differences in high school and college education between the two countries. The conversation also touches on personal anecdotes, such as perfecting a Kung Pao sauce recipe and experiences with local disturbances. Overall, the thread showcases a blend of light-hearted personal stories and deeper discussions on education and cultural differences.
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Maybe because he loves her so he doesn't want to hurt her. It seems ridiculous to me hear that a strong man can't slap a woman, even grab her neck or smack her down. :biggrin:
 
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Pepper Mint said:
Maybe because he loves her so he doesn't want to hurt her. It seems ridiculous to me hear that a strong man can't slap a woman, even grab her neck or smack her down. :biggrin:
Maybe because they will end up in jail if they do, even if they are defending themselves. Laws in this respect tend to favor women over men. Or they may be psychologically weak, or psychologically dominated, intimidated by their wife.
 
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Yes, I like your reply, but I think we care too much about people's private issues. They might be just making dramas or movies.
 
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Sophia said:
Today I've overheard two men about 60+ talking. One of them was telling the other one that his wife beats him. The second man laughed. The first one seemed stressed and repeated that she beats him much and that it hurts and it looked like he was about to cry. The second man said something funny again.
It's strange how the society has become sensitive to domestic violence against women, but remains indifferent to violence against men.
http://www.news.com.au/national/hidden-epidemic-of-women-beating-up-men/story-e6frfkvr-1225869842575

This is underreported and under studied. I would like to find out if there's a typical mental illness associated with spousal abuse, like, say bipolar disorder, which seems likely. Manic episodes are by no means always positive in mood. Mania is often irritable/angry mania, and a person can become quite irrationally aggressive.

The problem is probably often compounded by drug or alcohol abuse, so it's hard to sort out.
 
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WWGD said:
In most , maybe all countries, Women's movement is much better organized politically than the Men's movement, which is almost nonexistent.

Since men usually get laughed away they just tend to "suck it up" so to speak, as society tells us from a young age.
 
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JorisL said:
Since men usually get laughed away they just tend to "suck it up" so to speak, as society tells us from a young age.
Indeed. I don't know in Belgium, but we have the saying " Men Don't Cry". Edit: Men and women are expected to fulfill behavioral expectations in their respective societies.
 
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I just poured some yoghurt over some blackberries and ate it with a spoon. It was delicious. Go thou and do likewise.
 
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I was reading some more on how showering and cleaning without using soap helps the skin remain young and healthy. Still, I will resist the temptation of telling a woman with nice skin : " I bet you don't use soap very often".
 
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I definitely like the Tuna snak paks. They put in a bit of mayo, spice in the Tuna and the snack includes a small pack of crackers. Tasty, much more so than the regular Tuna packs with only oil or water.
 
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Jeremy Wade came face to face with the oarfish!
 
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After a week of sunshine, trees and grass are slowly becoming green!

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WWGD said:
I was reading some more on how showering and cleaning without using soap helps the skin remain young and healthy. Still, I will resist the temptation of telling a woman with nice skin : " I bet you don't use soap very often".
It's true. If I use a regular shower gel with SLS and fragrance my skin gets very tight, dry and flaky. This is especially true for face. Many people think that if their face is tight after washing it's good but it actually means that the skin is dry and protective barrier has been damaged.
I have to use gentle cleansers from pharmacy. They are slightly more expensive but it's not that bad.
 
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We're all here because we're not all there.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
I just poured some yoghurt over some blackberries and ate it with a spoon. It was delicious. Go thou and do likewise.

I make my own jam with whatever fresh fruit is available. Mix the jam with some yogurt, and your taste buds are having a party!
 
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Kevin McHugh said:
We're all here because we're not all there.
We're just in a different there in here.
 
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Sophia said:
I'm reading Twilight (yes, THAT Twilight :-) ) and this reminded me of a long term mystery.
How old are you? That novel is not for kids, I'm telling your parents.

I'm just kidding with you :-p. I don't even know if novels have age rating systems. o0)
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I got bitten and stung by ants while digging some earth. :confused: I did not see I was actually digging on top of a colony and when I came to feel it I had a bunch of them on my feet curled up, biting, and stinging o:).

Of all the spots to dig I had to choose the one exactly on top of a colony :doh:.
 
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Psinter said:
How old are you? That novel is not for kids, I'm telling your parents.

I'm just kidding with you :-p. I don't even know if novels have age rating systems. o0)
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I got bitten and stung by ants while digging some earth. :confused: I did not see I was actually digging on top of a colony and when I came to feel it I had a bunch of them on my feet curled up, biting, and stinging o:).

Of all the spots to dig I had to choose the one exactly on top of a colony :doh:.
Haha I am already 10 years adult (though until about 2yrs ago I was often asked for my ID card when buying beer :-p legal age here is 18 but with my 150cm I look like a 5th grader :-D).
I'm reading twilight just for fun, it's so stupid :-) in fact, I'm reading it in order to write a negative review on Goodreads :-) but it's a good book for relaxation when you're not in mood for thinking. Reading twilight is an equivalent to watching soap opera or reality show.

I'm sorry about the ants. Hope you're not allergic to them. What kind of ants have you got there? I guess they are more aggressive than those living in temperate climate. Even these can hurt quite a lot.
 
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A nice night of British police television: Luther and Scott and Bailey.
 
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It's unfair. You've probably seen mine but I've never seen yours.
 
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Sophia said:
Haha I am already 10 years adult (though until about 2yrs ago I was often asked for my ID card when buying beer :-p legal age here is 18 but with my 150cm I look like a 5th grader :-D).
I'm reading twilight just for fun, it's so stupid :-) in fact, I'm reading it in order to write a negative review on Goodreads :-) but it's a good book for relaxation when you're not in mood for thinking. Reading twilight is an equivalent to watching soap opera or reality show.
Haha. Should I read it? Hmmmmmmmm. Maybe I should stick with literary and artistic works I like better. I've never been a novel reader.

Hihi, I cannot possibly visualize 150cm.
Sophia said:
I'm sorry about the ants. Hope you're not allergic to them. What kind of ants have you got there? I guess they are more aggressive than those living in temperate climate. Even these can hurt quite a lot.
No hassle. I always got bitten and stung by them when I was a kid. Never had an allergic reaction. They are small where I am right now. My visual approximation is that they are about 0.50cm to about 1cm being a queen (one that isn't yet pregnant).
 
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I overheard a story from a guy a couple stools down from me (the guy wasn't talking to me, but rather the couple sitting next to me). He related a psychedelic experience after getting pretty messed up. As his story goes, he woke up and continued eating a sandwich that he had with him in a park by himself. He recounted seeing ants all over his sandwich and ants all over his face and chest. Attributing the anomaly to hallucinogenics, he blew it off and took another bite of his sandwich.

As it turned out apparently, it wasn't a hallucination at all. He had passed out (alcohol induced) next to a tree. Ants had taken over the situation. Honest to god ants. They invaded his mayonnaise covered chest, sandwich and face. He realized this only after eating a mouthful of ant sandwich.
 
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It's a tough time for corporate CEOs.

Median pay for the CEOs of nearly 300 large publicly traded companies slipped 3.8% to $10.8 million last year from $11.2 million in 2014, a Wall Street Journal analysis of compensation data from MyLogIQ found. Half of those CEOs saw total pay either decline or rise by less than 1%—also the worst showing for S&P 500 chiefs since the 2008 crisis.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-pay-shrank-most-since-003300877.html#
 
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Astronuc said:
It's a tough time for corporate CEOs.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-pay-shrank-most-since-003300877.html#

Those poor souls. My heart bleeds for them (not). I've often ventured you could eliminate every CEO position in the country, and it would not make one bit of difference to the bottom line, market share, or share price. With the exception of a few, they are merely figure heads.
 
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collinsmark said:
I overheard a story from a guy a couple stools down from me (the guy wasn't talking to me, but rather the couple sitting next to me). He related a psychedelic experience after getting pretty messed up. As his story goes, he woke up and continued eating a sandwich that he had with him in a park by himself. He recounted seeing ants all over his sandwich and ants all over his face and chest. Attributing the anomaly to hallucinogenics, he blew it off and took another bite of his sandwich.

As it turned out apparently, it wasn't a hallucination at all. He had passed out (alcohol induced) next to a tree. Ants had taken over the situation. Honest to god ants. They invaded his mayonnaise covered chest, sandwich and face. He realized this only after eating a mouthful of ant sandwich.
I giggled a little with this story.

If I had so many ants over me I would have gotten very antsy...... http://www.anothersadtrombone.com/

Maybe now I can enter the Hall of Lame with that one.
 
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collinsmark said:
I overheard a story from a guy a couple stools down from me (the guy wasn't talking to me, but rather the couple sitting next to me). He related a psychedelic experience after getting pretty messed up. As his story goes, he woke up and continued eating a sandwich that he had with him in a park by himself. He recounted seeing ants all over his sandwich and ants all over his face and chest. Attributing the anomaly to hallucinogenics, he blew it off and took another bite of his sandwich.

As it turned out apparently, it wasn't a hallucination at all. He had passed out (alcohol induced) next to a tree. Ants had taken over the situation. Honest to god ants. They invaded his mayonnaise covered chest, sandwich and face. He realized this only after eating a mouthful of ant sandwich.

Something similar, smaller scale just happened to me before I read your post. I was eating my cereal. I had left the cereal bowl in the sink and I had sprayed some air freshener. I just tasted some of the residuals of the air freshener in my cereal. Maybe I will have a fresher digestive system.
 
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Astronuc said:
It's a tough time for corporate CEOs.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-pay-shrank-most-since-003300877.html#
But I would bet they get to keep their golden parachutes.
 
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WWGD said:
But I would bet they get to keep their golden parachutes.

How big should a literal instance of such a object be to be a functional parachute?
 
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WWGD said:
But I would bet they get to keep their golden parachutes.
I don't think they need any of such agreements since most of them receive at least $10m per year (10% of which I wish I were given is so much enough for my retirement :biggrin:)
 
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Pepper Mint said:
I don't think they need any of such agreements since most of them receive at least $10m per year (10% of which I wish I were given is so much enough for my retirement :biggrin:)
Many neither need it nor deserve it but will likely get it.
 
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JorisL said:
How big should a literal instance of such a object be to be a functional parachute?
This is just an expression meaning they will get very nice financial compensation if they are fired. I doubt an actual functional parachute could be made of gold :).
 
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WWGD said:
This is just an expression meaning they will get very nice financial compensation if they are fired. I doubt an actual functional parachute could be made of gold :).

I know the expression, it exists in Dutch as well, wonder if it exists in french...
Although the original expression talks of a golden handshake.

*Googling intensifies*
Turns out it does.
 
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JorisL said:
I know the expression, it exists in Dutch as well, wonder if it exists in french...
Although the original expression talks of a golden handshake.

*Googling intensifies*
Turns out it does.
The expression in French has a certain, as the French would say, " I don't know what" :).
 
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In the Lord Tedric stories the King always wears golden armour. This gets him killed in many parallel universes (since gold armour is an obvious target, heavy and not very strong) except, in one universe, Tedric persuades him to wear gold leaf on steel.

Kevlar threads in a gold leaf matrix might make a parachute canopy. No idea where to start the maths on checking that...
 
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I wonder how visible the Dragon spacecraft is while it's catching up with the ISS? I expect it's a minute or two behind it in the same orbit. The shuttle used to be visible but that was much larger. I'll go outside and look now, as the ISS is due to pass over here in a couple of minutes.
 
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Jonathan Scott said:
I expect it's a minute or two behind it in the same orbit.
... actually, about 80 seconds behind it, based on counting from when ISS passed a particular star until the Dragon passed it (as I can't see my watch in the dark). It's clearly visible, but obviously much less bright than ISS or the shuttle.
 
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collinsmark said:
He realized this only after eating a mouthful of ant sandwich.
"A mouthful of ant sandwich," should be adopted as an idiom. I'm not sure what it might be used to mean though. The instances where people realize suspected hallucinations are actually real events are few and far between.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
"A mouthful of ant sandwich," should be adopted as an idiom. I'm not sure what it might be used to mean though. The instances where people realize suspected hallucinations are actually real events are few and far between.
Ditto many times over for the supernatural.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
"A mouthful of ant sandwich," should be adopted as an idiom. I'm not sure what it might be used to mean though. The instances where people realize suspected hallucinations are actually real events are few and far between.
Hallucinations no, but I've had a few instances in my life where my analysis of a situation was way off base and the difference between analysis and reality was rather shocking. I wired a diode into a circuit the wrong way round once so, instead of shorting the back EMF from a relay's solenoid, it shorted the solenoid. I thought there was something wrong with the input signal that was trying to switch the relay and was investigating this hypothesis. The feeling of dawning realisation accompanying the sequence of thoughts (1) what's that burning smell? (2) why is that diode glowing? (3) why is the stripe at the wrong end of its package? (4) understanding! (5) unplug unplug unplug could be well described by "a mouthful of ant sandwich".
 
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Ibix said:
Hallucinations no, but I've had a few instances in my life where my analysis of a situation was way off base and the difference between analysis and reality was rather shocking. I wired a diode into a circuit the wrong way round once so, instead of shorting the back EMF from a relay's solenoid, it shorted the solenoid. I thought there was something wrong with the input signal that was trying to switch the relay and was investigating this hypothesis. The feeling of dawning realisation accompanying the sequence of thoughts (1) what's that burning smell? (2) why is that diode glowing? (3) why is the stripe at the wrong end of its package? (4) understanding! (5) unplug unplug unplug could be well described by "a mouthful of ant sandwich".
We've all had our ant sandwiches.
 
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Ibix said:
Hallucinations no, but I've had a few instances in my life where my analysis of a situation was way off base and the difference between analysis and reality was rather shocking. I wired a diode into a circuit the wrong way round once so, instead of shorting the back EMF from a relay's solenoid, it shorted the solenoid. I thought there was something wrong with the input signal that was trying to switch the relay and was investigating this hypothesis. The feeling of dawning realisation accompanying the sequence of thoughts (1) what's that burning smell? (2) why is that diode glowing? (3) why is the stripe at the wrong end of its package? (4) understanding! (5) unplug unplug unplug could be well described by "a mouthful of ant sandwich".
There you go! So you could say: "I put the diode in the wrong way, but I only realized this after eating a mouthful of ant sandwich."
 
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Maybe I should not have tried it. I was subbing in teaching an Intro Stats class last week and we were doing exercises on bar charts, stem-and-leaf displays, etc.
I was supposed to do three graphs on Sex (M/F), Zip code of residence and Age. I purposefully skipped the first and just did the last two. Then I stated we were done. A girl in the class asks, shouting: " How about sex"? I replied: " Maybe after class, but I can't give you any extra points (towards her grade)"
They laughed, but I guess I could have gotten in trouble..
 
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Risky business indeed, better hope she passes or it might come back to hide failure.
 
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WWGD said:
They laughed, but I guess I could have gotten in trouble..
When you have people who hate you just because, they would use that against you even if they are deeply convinced that you were just joking. Here's just a small piece of what they could do (or not) if there is someone out there who has something against you: They could, with very little effort, blow it to ridiculous proportions to make you look like the latest wicked criminal in the avenue. They could/would, through the use of fear (like in the news), drive people around you to deliberately compare you to real dangerous criminals, your image damaged as they would talk dramatizing and difamating things about you behind your back and so on... They would engage the state and other set of authorities, wasting the state money, to investigate what the actual stuff happened while the state avert their eyes from real dangerous criminals who are completely hidden signing contracts like in the Panama Papers. It's society.

Then you will realize what smiles want to actually harm you. And then again there are those like in the tiny sombrero party who are wholeheartedly offended (or so they swear):
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'Watching Columbo again. I can watch Columbo all day long.

Oh, the days where a woman can throw her drink onto a man's face without the threat of her being charged with assault.*

I had a drink thrown in my face once, I'm pretty sure. I don't remember the details, except it was an ex girlfriend. It was awesome. (Edit: She was awesome. I mean no disrespect in this post.)

*[Throwing a drink in somebody's face is technically assault, legally speaking. 'Certanly not acceptable these days, but back in the '70s things were a bit different.]

[Edit: Peter Falk is awesome, RIP.]

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collinsmark said:
I had a drink thrown in my face once, I'm pretty sure. I don't remember the details, except it was an ex girlfriend. It was awesome. (Edit: She was awesome. I mean no disrespect in this post.)
Did it hit you or did you avoided it like a ninja?
 
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Psinter said:
Did it hit you or did you avoided it like a ninja?
It was several years ago, but yes, as I remember, the drink ended up all over my face.
 
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collinsmark said:
It was several years ago, but yes, as I remember, the drink ended up all over my face.
:frown: I hope it wasn't a hot drink.
 
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Psinter said:
:frown: I hope it wasn't a hot drink.
No, it was fine. (Was it just beer?) It all worked out friendly in the end, whatever the case.
 
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collinsmark said:
No, it was fine. (Was it just beer?) It all worked out friendly in the end, whatever the case.
:partytime:
 

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